by Rob72 » Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:00 pm
The people actually pirating the music and movies pretty much get away with it. A few months ago some kid was arrested by the FBI for leaking unfinished songs from "Guns N' Roses" lame Chinese Democracy cd... The kid didn't work in the studio, someone involved with the band, with the making of the cd, gave this kid copies of the songs, and no one from inside the studio or the band was held accountable.
I've downloaded countless songs, and I'm not exactly into new music, I have at one time or another owned a copy of all the stuff I downloaded, in some cases multiple copies... When I was 16 I bought Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction and Metallica's And Justice for All, on cassette, and wore them out within 2 months from listening to them so much, and wore them out again when I bought them a 2nd time, this was 1988, no internet, cd's and cd players were still too expensive for me, I bought them at least 2 more times on cd in the 90's, and I lost them, and all of the rest of my music collection, some 300+ cd's and cassettes, when I moved back to NJ from my brief music stint in Nashville in 2000... What I have "illegally" downloaded over the last 9 years hasn't even come close to replacing all the music I bought and paid for. The RIAA can kiss my ass.
There is a group in England that is going around suing people for listening to music they bought in public, claiming it's breaking the public performance laws in which artists are supposed to get paid royalties... Total BS. If it were an Abercrombie store, which uses music to attract teenage business, that is one thing, but they sued a police station cause a cop was listening to the radio, they sued a dog groomer for the same thing, they've gone after auto mechanics who listen to the radio or a cd in the shop, they are totally absurd.